Britain's marijuana mafia: 2 million users, £6bn worth of trade and 30,000 deaths

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Britain's marijuana mafia: Two million users, £6bn worth of trade and 30,000 deaths. A leading author meets the men (and women) feeding the UK's terrifying addiction
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By Wensley Clarkson
PUBLISHED: 21:56, 11 May 2013

With reader comments
  • A total of 750,000 cannabis plants were recovered by the police in 2009-10
  • Independent Drug Monitoring Unit says UK consumes 1,000 tons each YEAR
  • Three joints a day causes similar damage to 20 cigarettes in the same period

Cyril lives in a five-bedroom detached home hidden along an 800-yard drive in the middle of the Kent countryside. A grandfather and a businessman, he revels in the life of a country squire. But Cyril is one of the single most dangerous criminals I came across in my journey through the secret underworld of cannabis or hash. An outwardly respectable, middle-class businessman, he is clearly more than capable of having someone killed.

Cyril is a hash ‘financier’, called upon to help fund major gangland deals. ‘My role is to cough up £50k on a Monday and by Friday get £120k back, no questions asked,’ he says. ‘That’s a sweet deal.’

Cyril takes me in his gleaming black Bentley Turbo to a nearby lock-up garage, which he opens with an electronic remote control. The door slides up slowly to reveal three chairs, a table and a line of tools. He takes a hacksaw and runs his fingertip slowly along it.
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Cocaine, heroin, LSD and amphetamines all bring devastating consequences but it is no exaggeration to say that cannabis, and in particular hash, its concentrated resin, is the most deadly of them all. It brings a level of violence, illness and addiction that to most people would seem barely credible.
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...n-women-feeding-UKs-terrifying-addiction.html
 
30,000 deaths ? Are they saying there has been 30,000 deaths from cannabis in Britain?
 
the article is a series of sordid anecdotes about the cannabis distribution underworld--an underworld that would collapse if cannabis were legalized. The DM has unwittingly made the case for legalization here.

Also, as far as I can tell, the UK has fewer than 1000 total homicides per year, so there cannot be 30,000 cannabis homicides unless we're counting back to the time of Beowulf. If they'd like to make a case for there being 30,000 cannabis cancer deaths, I think that needs to be addressed in a separate article.
 
Cannabis homicides..?

Honestly! I'm in a paroxism of hysterics here & I havent even read the article yet!

Soon it’s going to be crawling with so many bloody foreigners that the police are going to lose control and it will be like living back in Victorian times with crooks and pimps on every street corner trying to make a quid. A lot of these people from abroad are much more desperate for cash than the Brits.

‘The cities will soon be overflowing with them and that’s when the real problems will begin.’
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Wow, what paranoid, xenophobic, offensive shite! I wonder if perhaps the drug dealer who made that comment isn't considerably less pleasant to deal with than the "foreigners" he hates, & fears are moving in on his turf.

This illustrates clear as day that the War on Drugs is set to become, if it isn't already, a War on Foreigners!
 
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